How to Connect an iPhone to an Amazon Echo Device and Play Music on Alexa?

As we all know Amazon Echo is a smart speaker that gets paired with Amazon’s voice-enabled assistant called Alexa. Amazon Alexa is compatible with multiple streaming services, which includes both subscription-based as well as free Amazon devices. This virtual assistant enables you to play music on your Amazon Echo by giving voice commands.

Alexa offers incredible control to its users as it allows them to stream audios and videos by using Amazon Alexa devices. One must register Alexa device on Amazon account as by doing so one will get access to the Amazon music as well as Audible library. In case you are using iPhone as home entertainment, then also you can control your Apple music streaming services by connecting your Amazon Echo smart speakers to your iOS smartphone.

How to Connect an iPhone to an Amazon Echo Device?

When we talk about Apple devices, they are quite inflexible in terms of connecting and pairing with non-Apple services. We all are well aware that iTunes is not compatible with Amazon Alexa. This raises a question in our mind: can we connect an iPhone to an Amazon Echo Device or not? Well, the answer is yes. Read below and learn how to do so.

Amazon smart speakers are Bluetooth-compatible. This enables a user to control audio streaming service on his iPhone by giving voice commands to Alexa.

Connect an iPhone to an Amazon Echo Device

Connect iPhone to Alexa Using Bluetooth

You can connect your iOS smartphone to Amazon assistant using Bluetooth. This gives you the power to control audio streaming services on the following devices.

2nd Gen Echo Dot
Echo Plus
Echo Show
Echo Spot
1st or 2nd generation Amazon Echo

Initial Pairing of iPhone to Amazon Echo

First of all, connect your iPhone to Amazon Echo smart speakers using Bluetooth. To pair both the devices place them close to one another. After that, launch settings app on your iOS smartphone. Now, go to Bluetooth and turn it on.

Now, give a command to Alexa to pair by saying “Alexa pair”. Alexa will process your command and put your device in the pairing mode. You will also receive a verbal response from Alexa confirming that your Amazon Echo is in the pairing mode.

After that, you will receive a notification on your iPhone screen asking you whether you want to pair with the Amazon device or decline the request. Touch on pair to connect both the devices using Bluetooth. You will also receive a confirmation from Alexa when the two devices will get connected to one another. Once the pairing is done, you will just have to say “connect my phone” to Alexa to establish the connection.

On your iPhone’s screen, you will see the connected status under Bluetooth. You can also see the connected status by going to the end of the screen where you will see the “Other Devices” where you will see your Echo Device.

Streaming Music on iPhone

After pairing your Alexa device to iPhone, you can launch the music streaming service on your iPhone and play the song of your choice and listen to songs on your Amazon Echo speakers. You can stream podcasts and listen to songs on Apple Music and iTunes. Additionally, you can play music on third-party apps like Pandora, Audiobox, or Spotify.

Connect an iPhone to an Amazon Echo Device

Controlling Music on Alexa

Amazon Alexa is a voice-enabled virtual assistant that means you can play and pause music by giving voice commands. You can tell Alexa to pause, play, resume, move forward, move backward, lower or raise the volume.

Nevertheless, you will not be able to command Alexa to play a specific song from the list. If you will try doing that, then this will disconnect Amazon device to iPhone and instead, it will start playing songs on default Amazon music source of your choice.

So, these are the steps that you need to follow in order to connect iPhone to an Amazon Echo device.